M. M. Prichard Visits Lake Arthur for Business
M. M. Prichard of Lake Arthur arrived yesterday to handle business matters and returned home last night.
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1910
Page
4
M. M. Prichard of Lake Arthur arrived yesterday to handle business matters and returned home last night.
All children planning to attend the Catholic school should call at the school next Friday at 9 o clock. The school reopens Monday the 24th. 13 remains confined to bed or rolling chair. Mrs. Veal was accompanied home by Mrs. Annie Munford who is visiting Roswell for an extended stay. Mrs. Munford previously visited Roswell five years ago and is welcomed back by friends.
Leonard W. Keaster arrived for a visit with his brother Dr. J. B. Keaster during a business trip in Roswell. Former Morrison Bros. salesman, he lived in Wichita after leaving two years ago. His mother and S H H Keaster joined from Artesia. she stayed in Roswell, he would remain only a day.
Mrs. G. T. Veal came home after twelve days in Dallas where she stayed at her ailing father Col. Co. C. Slaughter’s bedside. He has been in bed eleven weeks with a broken hip and is slowly improving.
O. C. Evans of Cincinnati arrives for a short visit with his old friend Dr. H. A. Ingalls and will travel to Arizona for a business visit.
Emmett Patton, a Chaves county representative at the constitutional convention, arrived Sunday evening for a several day stay due to sickness from high altitude. He came to the valley for a few days to recover.
President Taft leaves Beverly Massachusetts for Boston and a train to New York en route to Washington, beginning a two day stop on his return to duty.
A storm beginning as heavy rain in Denver area turned to snow in the mountains of eastern Utah and western Wyoming. Western Union reports three miles of poles down near Uintah in Weber Canyon, delaying trains. Snow and rain reach Idaho and Montana with colder weather expected to follow.
Seventy acres of irrigated level land near Roswell for sale under Hondo Reservoir with water rights. Partly fenced and cultivated, price available from local agents. Address inquiries to L. H. Hallam, Brownsville, Texas.
Boston October 19 Charles S Hamlin withdrew from the Democratic race leaving Frederick Mansfield of Boston as the regular nominee. Mansfield had agreed to withdraw before 5 p m Thursday but refused when Congressman Eugene W Foss filed Progressive Democrat papers. Foss has not secured Mansfield’s withdrawal.
Kansas City stock market notes cattle receipts 1200 including 800 southern. Native steers 5.25 to 6.50, southern steers 3.75 to 6.25, cows 2.75 to 4.25, stockers 3.25 to 5.70, calves 3.75 to 8.00. Hog receipts 6000 with sales 9.00 to 9.35. Sheep and lambs steady with muttons 3.50 to 4.50 and lambs 5.75 to 6.65.
London October 18 Dr Hawley H Crippen goes on trial for his life charged with the murder of Cora Belle Crippen known as Belle Elmore. The jury of middling tradesmen was secured with few objections Crippen pleads not guilty. Edita Clare Leneve Crippen's typist and accessory after the fact was not present.
Wool is steady with colonies in St Louis on October 19. Territory and western mediums bring 18 to 23 cents, fine mediums 17 to 20, and fine 14 to 17 cents.
Superintendent James E. Clark received a letter from Blackdom in Chaves county asking for advice. The settlement lies twenty miles south of Roswell near Dexter and concerns education matters.
A Santa Fe New Mexican note reports Blackdom as New Mexico’s only exclusive negro settlement. The community has taken 1,000 acres in homesteads, will install a pumping plant, and has built a commodious schoolhouse. It asks assistance for curriculum planning and securing a teacher.
Mr and Mrs John W Rhea and their little daughter Olivia returned last night after travels to Santa Fe for wealth and a Kansas stay They visited Eureka Springs Ark and Kansas City while Mr Rhea worked in cattle markets in Kansas City and elsewhere
Mrs J J Beck and Mrs Harold Thompson returned from Topeka where they attended the annual Christian Convention. Mrs Thompson had been away about a month visiting in Kansas City with Mr Thompson before the Topeka trip.
Three Mexican bandits raid the Lucky Tiger mine near Douglass Arizona on Thursday taking 25 sacks of high grade silver ore worth about 1000 dollars with a pack train of twelve burros. Pur suers captured them after four days without food or rest and all ore was recovered at Maconari jail.
London on October 19 the prosecution pressed its case against Dr Crippen charged with the murder of his actress wife Belle Elmore. Pathologist Augustus Pepper testified he found dismembered remains in the Crippen cellar and noted they were human, severed by a skilled hand. The organs appeared healthy and from a middle aged person buried not less than four and not more than eight months.
Albert Turner arrives from San Angelo Texas to operate Turner Studio while chief artist Wilfred H Smith is detained in Victoria British Columbia due to his wife’s illness.
L L Cahill MD of Springer New Mexico is spending several days in Roswell after arriving last night. He is featured in this brief report noting his travel and stay in the city.
Yorktown Va October 19 crowds gather to mark the 129th anniversary of Cornwallis surrender with the Yorktown Historical Society leading patriotic exercises and speakers. Gov Hodges presides as efforts continue to locate and mark the surrender site and related Revolutionary War spots once disputed.
The Interstate Commerce Commission announces that the long and short haul provision of the recent act becomes effective February 17, 1911. The commission reiterates that through rates higher than the local rate combination are prima facie unreasonable and will enforce this principle, granting exemptions only in extreme cases.
St Louis on October 19 reports seven balloons launched Monday rising into the air bound for Canada. The story notes initial flights from the city and ongoing ascent as the balloons head northward.
Reports from Canada indicate the international race status is unclear while the northern Michigan vicinity near Lake Huron remains in focus. Eight entrants completed a cross Lake Michigan crossing successfully, signaling progress in the event.
Cincinnati date Oct 19 six new bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church will be chosen by the house of bishops at the convention today. They will serve missionary districts including Arizona and North Texas.
Jackson Kentucky reports Matt Crawford a politician distiller and business man was shot by three men and a woman as he appeared at his doorway early today. His killers and motive are unknown and threats of lynching spread through the town amid the shooting.
A pair of Indian jugs were left in a small buggy yesterday afternoon in front of the N. M. Cigar Company curio shop. The finder is asked to return them to the Cigar Store.
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